UNIT 10 FREEDOM OF RELIGION

DAY 1 FREEDOM
OF RELIGION

Look at these pictures. What are they? What do they represent? Do you
know any of them?
Christianity

Islam

Hinduism

Buddhism

Judaism
 Do you know…?

There are 30 official religions in

the world and over 270 religious
groups.

How much do you know about them?

Star and Crescent – Islam

Star of David – Judaism

Aum – Hinduism

Lotus flower – Buddhism

Christian cross – Christianity

Ying and Yang – Taoism

 Hello
guys!!
How
are
you?

Hello Mario. We’re

fine, thanks and
you?

Mario: Yes, fine, thanks. Listen, I want to ask you something.

Aisha: What is it?

Mario: What’s your religion, Aisha?

Aisha: Islam. I’m a Muslim.

Mario: And you Xiang, what’s your religion?

Xiang: Buddhism. I’m a Buddhist. And you, Mario, what’s your religion?

Mario: I’m a Catholic. What do you believe in, Aisha?

Aisha: Muslims believe in Allah. Allah is our god. We read the Koran.

Mario: And what are your traditions?

Aisha: We pray five times a day. We don’t eat pork and we do Ramadan.
During Ramadan we don’t eat anything after the sun sets.

We don’t celebrate Christmas or Easter.

People who don’t believe in

anything are ATHEISTS
 Buddhism Islam Catholic

True or false activity:

Aisha is a Catholic F

Muslims believe in Jesus Christ

Muslims eat pork

Muslims pray on Sundays

Muslims don’t celebrate Christmas or Easter

Make a survey in the class:

NAME What’s your What do you believe in?

religion?
 DAY 2
HINDUISM

Aum is the symbol of H __ __ __ __ __ __ __

Hinduism is the main religion of I __ __ __ __ .

Where is India?
 Reading activity:

Hindus think that God takes many different shapes.

Some Hindus think that God is a man.

Some Hindus think that God is a woman.

Some Hindus think that God has no shape. They

think that God can take the form of truth, love, power
or fire.

Hindus believe that God is inside of us. When they greet

they put their hands together and say: NAMASTE = there is
God in you.

Hindus believe that cows are sacred. You can

use them for work, but you can’t eat them.
 Matching activity:

a) one shape

Hindus think that God takes ________ b) the shape of a woman

c) many different shapes

a) power

Some Hindus believe that God has no _____ b) shape

c) hands
a) us

Hindus believe that God is inside of ____ b) a cow

c) fire
a) in God

When Hindus greet they put their hands ___ b) together

c) in fire
a) cows

In India, you cannot eat _____ b) Gods

c) hands
 Write a short composition:

1. And you? What’s your religion?

I’m a ______________________________

2. What do you believe in?

___________________________________________________________________

3. What are your traditions?

___________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________
 DAY 3
HINDU GODS

What are these? They are Hindu G __ __ __ and GODDESSES

Vocabulary:

Preserver

Knowledge

Warrior

Arch

Goddess
 Listen and match the picture with the description of the God.

The most important Hindu gods are:

__2_ _____

____Brahmā ___

_____ _____

_______________________ _____________________

Lakshmi Vishnu Brahmā Shiva

 Describe your favourite Hindu God:

Parvati: Krishna:

Goddess. Mother of the universe God. Grey

Four arms. Red Flute. Cow

Rama: Ganesh:

God. Blue God. Elephant head

Young. Warrior. Archer Four arms. Big belly
 DAY 4
WELCOME TO INDIA

These are places and people from India.

 Look for the following cities in the map of India:

* Mumbai (Bombay) * Jaipur

* Kolkata (Calcutta) * Delhi

 Reading activity:

India has two faces

1. There are people with a lot of money. They are

rich and they live in nice houses.

___

2. But there are people with no money. Some

children live in the street. They are very, very poor.

__

3. Many children don’t have fun in India. They have

to beg for money in the street.

__

4. They have to work. They can’t go to school. They

can’t play sports. They can’t go to the doctor.

5. But they always have a smile for us.

____
 DAY 5 DISCOVER
INDIA YOURSELF I

Visit the following web pages about India:

http://virtualvillage.wesleyan.edu/virtualvillage/cgi-bin/loadmovie.cgi?
main=true&theme=1

http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jmresources/countries2/Chembakolli
%20presentation.ppt

Answer these questions:

E.g.: Where is Chembakolli?

Chembakolli is in the south of India.

Most of the villagers are ……..

a) nurses b) farmers c) students

What do they grow?

Is life in Chembakolli hard or easy?

What do the women have to do?

How many litres of water do they have to carry?

What’s the weather like today?

http://www.globaleye.org.uk/primary_spring2002/oncamera/index.html

http://www.eprarthana.com/virtual/vkrishna.asp
DAY 6 DISCOVER INDIA
YOURSELF II

Work on one of these projects.

Do a project on some of these towns of India:

Calcutta

Mumbai

New Delhi

Jaipur

Bangalore

Find out about some of these people:

Mahatma Gandhi

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Vicente Ferrer

Mata Amritanandamayi Devi

Find more about India wildlife.

Do a project on Bollywood and its movies.